Feels Villeneuve posted:

if turn based combat gives you a clinical depressive disorder, that seems like, a you problem

Stux posted:

skill issue

Feels Villeneuve posted:

i'm with the person up thread who likes their combat fast and twitchy so I have never gotten into Souls and its very deliberate combat



everyone says i'd like Sekiro but the n*zis at Activision refuse to put it on sale....

bewilderment posted:

Genuinely surprised by how much I Was A Teenage Exocolonist didn't appear in goon lists that games like Citizen Sleeper, Scarlet Hollow and Pentiment did show up in.

To be fair, I think all of those games are superior to it and ordered my list as such. I just would've figured "choice and consequence VN where you get to make poker hands out of your memories in card form" would've been a bigger hit.
I'm probably not going to 100% it but I spent like 3 days getting the endings I did (including a surprisingly solid and accomplished first run that only fell over at the last hurdle).

Stux posted:

the skill is flexibility and adaptability

Feels Villeneuve posted:

you cant just call everything a skill issue. that is illegal

Jay Rust posted:

I am one of the goons who played the trianglestrats demo and thought “eww”, one day I will give it a proper shake

Natural 20 posted:

I am pretty convinced at this point that the slow start in Tristrat was probably by intent.

It speaks to the confidence that the devs had in the game. They wanted the early part of the game to be evocative of peacetime and so naturally battles are scarce and a player can sense the difference when poo poo finally hits the fan.

Additionally I feel like all the work they do in those early chapters does a lot of the heavy lifting for establishing you in Norzelia so that decisions you make and the reactions to them from the wider cast make sense deeper in the game.

I think one of Tristrat's greatest strengths is that no character feels like they pick up an idiot ball at any time and that if you look at how they act, it's always consistent with the beliefs the game has established for them.

And if you don't feel like you can be patient with the game for three hours, then the devs are fine with you tapping out.

morallyobjected posted:

I will be picking up This Way Madness Lies at some point because of this thread because it sounds like extremely my poo poo, and maybe like the battle system is different than Cthulhu Saves the World, which I didn't really like.

Natural 20 posted:

I am pretty convinced at this point that the slow start in Tristrat was probably by intent.

It speaks to the confidence that the devs had in the game. They wanted the early part of the game to be evocative of peacetime and so naturally battles are scarce and a player can sense the difference when poo poo finally hits the fan.

Additionally I feel like all the work they do in those early chapters does a lot of the heavy lifting for establishing you in Norzelia so that decisions you make and the reactions to them from the wider cast make sense deeper in the game.

I think one of Tristrat's greatest strengths is that no character feels like they pick up an idiot ball at any time and that if you look at how they act, it's always consistent with the beliefs the game has established for them.

And if you don't feel like you can be patient with the game for three hours, then the devs are fine with you tapping out.

Relax Or DIE posted:

you can't blame them, there's no way to build muscle memory for understanding criticism so souls fans are forced to fall back to get good. it's sad, really

Relax Or DIE posted:

you can't blame them, there's no way to build muscle memory for understanding criticism so souls fans are forced to fall back to get good. it's sad, really

exquisite tea posted:

It's turn-based combat very similar to Cosmic Star Heroine where each character gets a limited number of active skills and three passives. Debuff skills inflict vulnerabilities while others "detonate" them, and these abilities are often split between party members so you want to choose the right balance for the team. Most spells often take on different traits when a character is fully charged up, so you sometimes want to be strategic about the order in which you cast them. All this being said the combat is quite easy on Normal and my party was never really in danger of wiping at any point. The most fun part is finding the best team configuration.

Oxxidation posted:

there's a few coming onto the scene like kayleigh mckee but she's not in video games yet to my knowledge

Relax Or DIE posted:

you can't blame them, there's no way to build muscle memory for understanding criticism so souls fans are forced to fall back to get good. it's sad, really

Natural 20 posted:

So if I prefer Cheddar cheese to Stilton then I have a skill issue?

Feels Villeneuve posted:

if turn based combat gives you a clinical depressive disorder, that seems like, a you problem

biceps crimes posted:

hate when good threads turn lovely

Stux posted:

biceps crimes posted:

hate when good threads turn lovely

Epic High Five posted:

I played the demo of Triangle Strategy and I'll admit my response to seeing it so often here was "oh, a game eventually started happening after all? Nice."

Being on Game Pass or PS+ seems to be a huge boon for smaller or indie stuff

Feels Villeneuve posted:

i'm with the person up thread who likes their combat fast and twitchy so I have never gotten into Souls and its very deliberate combat



everyone says i'd like Sekiro but the n*zis at Activision refuse to put it on sale....

hatty posted:

Sekiro is worth upwards of $60

Axel Serenity posted:

Shoutout to the one goon who put PowerPro Baseball on the list.

I've been watching a lot of streamers playing it, and it's getting me through the cold, harsh winter. I don't know of any game series I wish got ported over more than that, but sadly we're stuck with half-effort The Show sequels.

Relax Or DIE posted:

godspeed you, Studas